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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Episode 5

Beautiful Doom

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AIRED: Nov 08, 2012

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As Meredith and Cristina rely on each other as they cope with increasing responsibilities at their respective hospitals and cope with life after the plane crash; Cristina helps Dr. Thomas with a challenging heart surgery.

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5.0

By I_M100, Jan 13, 2013

This episode was soooo boring. Also I wish Shonda stops killing off all her characters as I've grown numb and desensitise to it all. I mean seriously dying standing up mid surgery? Please...

Patients are also getting increasingly ridiculous from the fat girl that didn't want her boyfriend to see her naked to this week's doom's day couple.

Please can we get some of the fun and sexy back into the show? And no this does not include April (aka most annoying Grey character ever) in any shape or form. Now if there was a character I'd be happy see dying it'd be that one!moreless
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beautiful doom

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By Devon39219, Nov 29, 2012

Spoiler alert!

Meredith and Christina both have challenging surgeries, which we see at the same time. Frankly, I hate echo in my own phone, let alone in one of the shows I'm watching, maybe they tried to add something with that but I just found it annoying. Dr. Thomas died during surgery, which was kind of sad, but also necessary for Christina to return to Seattle Grace. Meredith finally admits that Lexie's dead. What I am wondering, did Lexie and Meredith not have another sister? and where is she in all this?moreless
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Impress!!

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By PatriciaNieto, Nov 20, 2012

What a great episode.!!! Itsbeen a long time since I havent been impress in such a good interpretation. Christina and Meredith with their two surgeries at the same time... And the wise Dr Thomas what a great lesson for Christina. At the same time the Chief also gives Meredith the experience. Senior doctors guiding to the new generation. I love the scene where Meredith has her 30 seconds dance... I coudnt help laughting and later crying with Dr Thomass farewell.... Very good moments.... Thanks Shonda and the rest of the cast..moreless
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Excellent

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By msheadred, Nov 18, 2012

Excellent episode; very emotional. The writers are obviously incorporating the growth and maturing of the characters in their writing. The parallels between Meredith's case with her patient, and Christina's case with hers, were very interesting and poignant. William Daniels' portrayal of Dr. Thomas in this seasons' episodes has been outstanding; I hate to see him go. Many viewers would not have picked up on the significance of his line, "I'm not Craig! I'm Dr. Thomas!" This character's first name was Craig. But I think this was a clever reference to Daniels' Emmy-winning performances on "St. Elsewhere" years ago, on which he played "Dr. Craig." I think the side-story in this episode with Zola being sick was to show that Meredith is becoming more and more like her mother. Excellent episode.

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Powerfull and unexpected

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By smpm22, Nov 13, 2012

This was a powerful episode. It made laugh and it made me cried. It was more focused on the medical drama than regular drama per se. Both Meredith and Cristina had big surgeries, like they usually always do, and most of the time the episode was focused on these. Meredith's was special because it was a young woman suffering from crush injuries, which reminded Mer (and the viewer) about Lexie's death. While Christina's was a big aneurism.

Between surgeries and post ops Mer was dealing with Zola, who had a fever. Nothing interesting, I'm guessing the writers wanted something to divert the attention from the surgeries from time to time, but nothing big enough to take too much time.

Nothing else was shown. We didn't see what's going on between Kepner and Avery, between Arizona and Callie or between Webber and momma Avery. The whole episode was focused on the two surgeries and Zola.

However it was greatly done and it was necessity to focus only on the surgeries. That way the ending would be more shocking. When Mer's patient woke up, it was emotional. And during the last part of Christina's surgery Dr. Thomas died. He fell flat back. Which was also emotional, but was what Christina needed to make the decision to go back to Seattle. At last she did, in the end Christina appeared at Meredith's house, I'm hoping she is in Seattle to stay.

I really hope they never split the screen again, but most importantly that echo was horrible and had no purpose.moreless
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Ellen Pompeo	Dr. Meredith Grey
Patrick Dempsey	Dr. Derek Shepherd
Sandra Oh	Dr. Cristina Yang
Chandra Wilson	Dr. Miranda Bailey
Eric Dane	Dr. Mark Sloan
James Pickens Jr.	Dr. Richard Webber

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- Dr. Thomas: (voiceover) Breathe, Dr. Yang. Don't be crass. You're skulking. Women of your generation are graceless. It's an affront to nature. Mediocre surgeons will see you and feel themselves wilting in your shadow. Do not shrink to console them. Do not look for friends here. You won't find them. None of these people have the capacity to understand you. They never will. If you're lucky, one day when you're old and shriveled like me, you will find a young doctor with little regard for anything but their craft. And you'll train them like I trained you. Until then, read a good book. You have greatness in you, Yang. Don't disappoint.
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- Cristina: This is a bad idea. Parker will never sign off on this surgery.
  Dr. Thomas: I can't tell you how strenuously I object to your extracurricular gymnastics with that man. He's making you conventional and skittish. You know, condoms don't protect against that.
  Cristina: (stunned) H-how did you...
  Dr. Thomas: You were the first one to point out, I've been around a long time.
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- Cristina: You need a bug out bag.
  Meredith: What's that?
  Cristina: Like a diaper bag for adults. I'm making mine right now.
  Meredith: Well, what do you have so far?
  Cristina: Tequila.
  Meredith: Well, that's a good start.
  Cristina: What else?
  Meredith: Well, the sign of a well-packed diaper bag is backups in case you run out.
  Cristina: So more Tequila?
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- Meredith: (notices an intern) You! I need you to go get my car, it's at the intersection of 4th and Pike. In the back seat there's a box of frozen fish sticks. Grab them, nuke them and bring them up to the daycare for Brazil Day.
  Bailey: Grey! You know you just stole my intern?
  Meredith: Sorry!
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- Cristina: Oh, stop being a bitter working mother.
  Meredith: I am, I have pee on my shoe.
  Cristina: You're a doctor! Can't you call it urine?
  Meredith: Because 'urine on my shoe' is more appealing?
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- Dr. Thomas: Biggest aneurysm I have ever seen.
  Cristina: Considering how old you are, that is sayin' somethin'.
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- Meredith: (opening voiceover) Sometimes, things are simply out of your control. You can't change them. You can't bend them to your will. It doesn't matter if you're already 45 minutes late, if your hair isn't brushed, and you haven't fixed breakfast and your hemorrhaging brain spills by the second while you sit here dying. Dying inside
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- Bailey: Dr. Grey, do you know why men think they can run the world and women can't? Because of crying babies.
  Meredith: I was hoping no one would hear it.
  Bailey: Er.. we can ALL hear it. I can hear it. Dr. Ross out there can hear it. Only difference is the crying doesn't affect him, but you and I, are genetically predisposed to respond to crying babies. It's pulling your focus.
  Grey: It's gonna be fine. I'm almost done.
  Bailey: Okay this is about world domination. If we are going to take over, we need to have our babies crying somewhere other than the ICU.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: November 8, 2012 on CTV
  Australia: November 13, 2012 on Channel 7
  United Kingdom: December 5, 2012 on Sky Living
  Norway: January 15, 2013 on TV2
  Germany: February 6, 2013 on ProSieben
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